How to Make Your Feedback Actionable Instead of Scary
You have to correct someone, but you want to preserve the relationship with them. You want to be friends.
You don't want to alienate them or cause drama, so you don't want to confront them.
Feedback is essential to the management of your business. Letting them go on without correction is a mistake.
If you want someone to get better, you must tell them how. Perhaps how they're failing or not meeting standards is enough, but it is much better to give them a clear path forward.
"Do this" is much better than "don't do that."
Feedback is a way to close a skill gap between the employee and the quality of the job they need to be doing.
Some managers struggle giving good feedback which means those gaps don't get repaired. Focus on the action steps and remember always that your purpose in correcting someone is to make them and the company better than before.
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